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{log} (read 'setlog') was born as a Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) language where sets and binary relations are first-class citizens, thus fostering set programming. Internally, {log} is a constraint satisfiability solver implementing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Maximiliano Cristiá , Alfredo Capozucca , Gianfranco Rossi

Previous results on proving confluence for Constraint Handling Rules are extended in two ways in order to allow a larger and more realistic class of CHR programs to be considered confluent. Firstly, we introduce the relaxed notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Henning Christiansen , Maja H. Kirkeby

In this paper we present InterHorn, a solver for recursion-free Horn clauses. The main application domain of InterHorn lies in solving interpolation problems arising in software verification. We show how a range of interpolation problems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Ashutosh Gupta , Corneliu Popeea , Andrey Rybalchenko

2LS is a framework for analysis of sequential C programs that can verify and refute program assertions and termination. The 2LS framework is built upon the CPROVER infrastructure and implements template-based synthesis techniques, e.g. to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Viktor Malik , Martin Hruska , Peter Schrammel , Tomas Vojnar

Developing an efficient non-linear Horn clause solver is a challenging task since the solver has to reason about the tree structures rather than the linear ones as in a linear solver. In this paper we propose an incremental approach to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Bishoksan Kafle

This paper investigates the combination of abstract interpretation over the domain of convex polyhedra with interpolant tree automata, in an abstraction-refinement scheme for Horn clause verification. These techniques have been previously…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Bishoksan Kafle , John P. Gallagher

Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

Deductive verification of hybrid systems (HSs) increasingly attracts more attention in recent years because of its power and scalability, where a powerful specification logic for HSs is the cornerstone. Often, HSs are naturally modelled by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Naijun Zhan , Xiangyu Jin , Bohua Zhan , Shuling Wang , Dimitar Guelev

[Context and motivation] When developing software, coordination between different organizational units is essential in order to develop a good quality product, on time and within budget. Particularly, the synchronization between…

Automatic software verification tools help to find hard-to-detect faults in programs checked against specified requirements non-interactively. Besides, they can prove program correctness formally under certain assumptions. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ilja Zakharov , Evgeny Novikov , Ilya Shchepetkov

Enhancing the mathematical reasoning of large language models (LLMs) demands high-quality training data, yet conventional methods face critical challenges in scalability, cost, and data reliability. To address these limitations, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sirui Chen , Changxin Tian , Binbin Hu , Kunlong Chen , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

We present a new approach to HPSG processing: compiling HPSG grammars expressed as type constraints into definite clause programs. This provides a clear and computationally useful correspondence between linguistic theories and their…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Thilo Goetz , Walt Detmar Meurers

Formal verification of complex algorithms is challenging. Verifying their implementations goes beyond the state of the art of current automatic verification tools and usually involves intricate mathematical theorems. Certifying algorithms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eyad Alkassar , Sascha Böhme , Kurt Mehlhorn , Christine Rizkallah

This paper presents a proof system for reasoning about execution time bounds for a core imperative programming language. Proof systems are defined for three different scenarios: approximations of the worst-case execution time, exact time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Ana Carolina Silva , Manuel Barbosa , Mario Florido

C-RASP is a simple programming language that was recently shown to capture concepts expressible by transformers. In this paper, we develop new algorithmic techniques for automatically verifying C-RASPs. To this end, we establish a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjian Jiang , Matthew Hague , Philipp Rümmer , Anthony Widjaja Lin

In a previous paper, we have shown that clause sets belonging to the Horn Bernays-Sch\"onfinkel fragment over simple linear real arithmetic (HBS(SLR)) can be translated into HBS clause sets over a finite set of first-order constants. The…

This paper explores verification of constituent systems within the context of the Symphony tool platform for Systems of Systems (SoS). Our SoS modelling language, CML, supports various contractual specification elements, such as state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Luis Diogo Couto , Simon Foster , Richard Payne

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 10th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV 2014), which was held on 18 July 2014 in Vienna, Austria, as a satellite workshop of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Maurice H. ter Beek , António Ravara

An emerging branch of control theory specialises in certificate learning, concerning the specification of a desired (possibly complex) system behaviour for an autonomous or control model, which is then analytically verified by means of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Alec Edwards , Andrea Peruffo , Alessandro Abate

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on petabytes of data are highly compressed repositories of a significant proportion of the knowledge accumulated and distilled so far. In this paper we study techniques to elicit this knowledge in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Paul Tarau